In an excel spreadsheet, how can I make "x" have the value of 1 so the column 
is totaled automatically?

=COUNTIF(E4:E8,"x")

will count the number of "x"s -  make sure to use your range that you want 
to count the "x"s over (E4:E8 is just an example of a range)

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"lettbonn" wrote:

> In an excel spreadsheet, how can I make "x" have the value of 1 so the column 
> is totaled automatically?